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the universe's favorite recurring nightmare, dressed up as a clean restart.
means Happening in repeating cycles — recurring at regular intervals so that things come back around to where they started.
from From Greek 'kyklos,' meaning a circle, ring, or wheel — the same root that turns up in 'cycle,' 'bicycle,' and 'encyclopedia' (literally a 'circle of learning'). The '-al' tail is the familiar Latin-derived suffix that makes a noun into an adjective, so 'cyclical' is, at heart, 'of the wheel' — forever rolling round and arriving, exhausted, back at the beginning.
- economic ghost
- Boom-bust cycles repeat despite every generation swearing it's different
- menstrual math
- Average cycle is 28 days, lunar month is 29.5
- carbon loop
- Every breath recycles atoms once exhaled by dinosaurs
- fashion's revenge
- Trends return roughly every 20 years, mocking your discarded wardrobe
- sleep stages
- You cycle through full REM sets about five times nightly
business cycle — economy alternating between expansion and recession, documented since 1854 in the us
sunspot cycle — solar activity peaking every 11 years, affecting earth's climate and radiation
milankovitch cycles — earth's orbital variations repeating every 41,000 and 100,000 years, driving ice ages